Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment

When

12 Dec 1917

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

45.21° N, 6.48° E

Description

train wreck

Deaths

435

1917 railway accident in France

The Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment of December 12, 1917, was a railway accident involving a troop train carrying at least 1,000 French soldiers on their way home for leave from the Italian front in World War I. A derailment as the train descended the Maurienne Valley on the Culoz–Modane railway caused a catastrophic crash and subsequent fire in which more than 435 died; a second record reports that 675 died.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Eisenbahnunfall von Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne auf der Bahnstrecke Culoz–Modane”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “déraillement d'un train à Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne qui fait 425 victimes officielles”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page